Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson's "Homeland": de-constructing the rhetoric of consensus in the aftermath of September 11th attacks

• Autores: Cinzia Schiavini
• Localización: Altre Modernità: Rivista di studi letterari e culturali, ISSN-e 2035-7680, Nº. Extra 2, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Número especial 9/11/2011), págs. 310-324
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Focusing on Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson�s reportage Homeland (2004), this essay explores the de-construction of the discursive and cultural strategies of the �state of exception� used to depict 9/11 events and the dialectics between domestic and international politics and economies. The analysis focuses in particular on four elements: the concept of �Ground Zero� and �Homeland� and their use as lexical and symbolic catalysts of nationalism; the forms and the erasure of dissent; the commodification of 9/11 and the Iraqi war; and the relation between the national rhetoric and the transnational economy in the last two decades